Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 22, 2009

In December 2005, John Yoo, the Bush administration Justice Department official who wrote several key memos defending the legality of torture, was asked in a debate if the president could legally order the torture of children. Yoo replied that this would depend on the reasons why such torture would be considered necessary by the president.

Newly released documents provide compelling evidence that the Bush administration did indeed torture children ? in this case, the children of alleged 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who were seized in Pakistan in 2002 and held for several months in U.S. custody. Specifically, the children were assaulted with ants and other insects for the supposed purpose of compelling them to reveal their father?s whereabouts.

Earlier disclosures indicate that after Mohammed was apprehended, interrogators threatened to harm or kill his children if he didn?t cooperate.

If we?ve become the kind of people who torture children, how are we morally superior to the terrorists?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.